The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/turn_o_boughs on 2024-12-06 10:11:43.

A scenario for your hoarding consideration:

You discover a box of unrecognized hard drives containing tens of terabytes of data. The drives may or may not contain important and irreplaceable data. It will take months or years to sort through the drives.

Do you immediately back up the data according to established best practices (for example 3-2-1) even though there may be nothing of value on the drives?

I am facing a similar, less exaggerated scenario. My proposed solution is to make only a single local backup while I sort through the data over an extended period.